rant · moment 13 of 16
The Wildest Office: Jim Cacciatore, Long Island Nightclubs, and the Body Count
from #168 - The Funniest Guy I Ever Met | The Tim Dillon Show · #168
8 min
Tim continues describing the insane mortgage office culture circa 2005-2006, including a clueless salesman named Jim Cacciatore, nights at the Long Island club Mirage doing coke and dancing with people who 'deserved' the financial crisis, and reflecting on how many people from that era ended up dead or in jail.
- Jim Cacciatore, an older Italian guy who wore unbuttoned shirts with chest hair exposed, worked in Tim's mortgage office without knowing anything about mortgages.
- Jim would put callers on hold every few seconds to ask colleagues basic questions about mortgages before returning to pitch them.
- Tim's 2005-2006 mortgage office was the height of insanity, drugs, and his own cocaine use at the peak of his addiction.
- Tim was sniffing heavy amounts of cocaine while calling clients and eventually owed thousands of dollars just in cocaine debt.
- Tim lived in a windowless basement apartment in Massapequa, Long Island doing cocaine, then moved to Long Beach, both barely lived in before buying a house.
- The mortgage office crew would pile into the boss's shitty old limo, drive to the city, go to nightclubs, and party until the boss punched someone and got everyone kicked out.
- Mirage was a massive club in the middle of Long Island where Tim's coworkers would dance, do blow, and drink during the peak of their excess.
- Long Island people are so confident and self-assured in their ignorance that watching them party makes you wish a financial crisis would thin the herd.
- Several people from Tim's mortgage office ended up in jail, overdosed, or died during that era, including at least one OD in the office.
- Tim attended two or three funerals during that period for people from the office, one a car accident but most related to drug use.
Long IslandmortgagesMirageLong BeachMassapequa Long Island